LOS ANGELES – March 4, 2014 – (mt) Media Temple, a Los Angeles-based company providing premium web hosting and cloud services, today announced the launch of its new Premium WordPress Hosting product, which combines the best of managed WordPress hosting with the company’s own WordPress trained customer support team available 24/7/365.

Leveraging its long-time involvement with the Open Source community, Media Temple has extended one of the industry’s fastest WordPress platforms to deliver Premium WordPress Hosting, ahighly flexible and scalable WordPress hosting solution that is optimized for web developers and designers. Premium features include a customer staging environment, website templating, as well as a unique WordPress theme market, created by designers for designers. Additionally, with automated WordPress updates, enhanced security and one-click backups, Media Temple’s Premium WordPress Hosting keeps sites secure and always updated with the latest version of WordPress.

“With Premium WordPress Hosting, we offer a premium user experience to web developers and designers by providing them with everything they need to securely create and deploy WordPress sites for themselves and for others, while we take care of all their hosting needs,” said Dante G. Baker, Shared Services Product Manager at Media Temple. “And because we are dedicated to upholding the best customer service in the hosting industry, our team of in-house WordPress experts has them covered anytime, anywhere.”

Media Temple’s WordPress Product Team will be holding a live Ask Media Temple Anything Q&A about the company’s new managed WordPress hosting productin a Google+ Hangout tomorrow, March 5, 2014, at 9 am PT/12 pm ET.

WordPress users who want to migrate their site to Media Temple can leverage the company’s concierge site migration service, which makes moving a WordPress site a snap.

Media Temple currently hosts over 300,000 WordPress sites.

About (mt) Media Temple

From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help web developers, designers, digital entrepreneurs and innovators bring their ideas to life online. Media Temple was founded on the premise of hosting our customers’ great ideas, and we have been the hosting choice of creative professionals ever since. Over 125,000 people and businesses in 100 countries rely on our reliable and easy-to-use tools for web hosting, one-click WordPress installs, virtual servers, domain registration, business applications, and other cloud services to power 1.5 million websites. Our premium service model combined with our scalable technology allows us to focus on delivering only exceptional quality products and best-in-class, award-winning 24/7/365 customer support. Our clients range from top tier designers, popular blogs and online design communities, to global advertising agencies, artistic ecommerce meccas and brands like Red Bull, Nike, Diesel and Under Armour. With 230 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple has been repeatedly recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America, and one of the best places to work.